I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued tog…

Virginia Woolf
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I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1990). A moment's liberty: the shorter diary, Vintage
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I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1990). A moment's liberty: the shorter diary, Vintage

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